The Corfu Blog by Hilary Paipeti

This blog will cover countryside matters over the changing seasons, with additional comments on walks and food (home and taverna, and some recipes). My crossbreed Corfiot mutts Lulu and Bruni will also feature from time to time. I expect to blog every week or ten days, and maybe more frequently if there is something to inform you about. Watch this space!

Note ——Thursday evening, and it appears that the weather is going to be awful for the next couple of days. I am not cancelling the Strinilas walk, but just letting you know that if it is raining as forecasted the walk will be postponed to the 27th. If the... read more

Following Remembrance on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the time seems right to view the BBC’s 1964 documentary series ‘The Great War’. All 26 episodes, each 40 minutes long, are easily found on YouTube – just... read more

On Wednesday, 30 July, the Superyacht Topaz was seen moored quayside at Corfu’s New Port. The vessel was launched in 2012 and at 147 metres long is the fifth largest privately-owned motor yacht in the world (the Azzam is currently the world’s largest at... read more

Talking of Peter Hitchens… A review of: Short Breaks in Mordor Dawn’s and Departures of a Scribbler by Peter Hitchens He calls himself ‘the hated Peter Hitchens’, because of the bile directed at him from both sides of the political spectrum: From the... read more

We have a real Bookshop! For I think the first time ever, I have been obliged to make Bill Gates even richer. Against my wishes, but obligatory for a guidebook update job I have been offered, I bought a Microsoft Office programme. As my computer is a Mac, I... read more

Here come the Corfu Trailers! Or coincidence strikes again. I was sitting in the 19th Hole bar in Vatos chatting to a Dutch friend over an Easter Sunday Evening ouzo when in walked an exhausted-looking stranger, who sat down at a neighbouring table. Since she was... read more

24th March 2014 This is the Season of Firsts: The First Tree in Leaf (20 February); the First Judas Tree in Bloom (14 March); the First Swallows (22 March, afternoon); the First Mosquito Attack (ditto). Now we await that unfamiliar creature – the First... read more